Barbed fence-strip



(No Model.)

' E. E. HAWKINS.

'BARBED FENCE STRIP.

No. 307,940. Patented Nov. 11, 1884.

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NITED STATES ELBERT E. HAWKINS, OF WILKES-BAKER PENNSYLVANIA.

BARBED FENCE-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,940, dated November 11, 1884. Application filed December 12, 1883. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELBERT E. HAWKINS,

' of VVilkes-Barr, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Barbed Fence-Strip, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved barbed strip for making fences, which strip is simple in construction and can easily be made from sheet metal.

The invention consists in a strip having a U-shaped vcross-section, and provided with tongues projecting from the upper edge of the strip and projecting alternately in opposite directions.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved barbed fence-stri p. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal View of the blankfrom which the barbed strip shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is made.

The metal blank A is provided with a series of triangular tongues, B, punched alternately out of the said blank on opposite sides of its central longitudinal line, as shown in Fig. 3. The blank is then bent into U shape, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the tongues B project alternately from the opposite sides of the upper bent edge of the strip and at right angles to the U-shaped body thereof. By this ELBERT E. HAWKINS.

WVitnesses:

W. L. DEAN, MARK KEENEY. 

